The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it ...

You wouldn't swipe a historic relic while sightseeing, would you? Here are four cases of people who did, then made amends upon realizing their wrongdoing.

There is an ancient temple in Greece that is almost intact, standing at the top of the hill of Agoraios Colonos next to the ...

The excavation offers a fresh window into how people lived, traded, and commemorated the dead on the western Black Sea coast during the Roman era. Hospital Works Reveal a Hidden Tomis Necropolis ...

While ancient Greece didn't have a police force in the same way we think of them today, they did have systems for enforcing ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...